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Peter Thiel gained early fame for being a co-founder of PayPal alongside Elon Musk. After selling that company to eBay, Thiel used his newfound fortune to become a venture capitalist. One of his earliest multibaggers came from investing in Facebook (now Meta Platforms) in 2004. Thiel later co-founded Palantir Technologies, the data analytics firm that…

The size and scope of the world’s biggest technology companies seem beyond anything we could have imagined in the distant past. Companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Google are described by many as monopolies in particular sectors and have landed themselves in trouble with the law over it.